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UTIG Seminars: Spring Semester, 2020

Back catalogue of UTIG Seminars. Click the images below to watch a recording of the seminar.

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitleHost
January 24Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream, its connection to ocean variability and the implications for decadal predictionYuko Okumura and Patrick Heimbach
January 31Beth Christensen, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Rowan UniversityHow Plate Tectonics Drove Continental Climate Change In AustraliaSteve Phillips
February 7Wenyuan Fan, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Florida State UniversityHow to rock the Earth without an earthquake?Shuoshuo Han
February 14Alexey Portnov, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ohio State UniversityGas hydrates in dynamic geological systemsManasij Santra and Steve Phillips
February 21Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin, Planetary Scientist, Lunar and Planetary InstituteFollowing the water towards habitability beyond EarthCyril Grima
February 28Zach Sickmann, Richard T. Buffler Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIGDetrital Signals of the AnthropoceneSean Gulick
March 6Caroline Morley, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, UT College of Natural SciencesProspects for Observing Exoplanets in the Coming Years with the James Webb Space TelescopeKrista Soderlund
March 27Kirk Scanlan, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIGRadar: Planes, Trains, and Spacecraft(-mobiles)Don Blankenship
April 3Kristine DeLong, Associate Professor of Geography, Louisiana State UniversityThe Alabama Underwater Forest: A Time Capsule from the Last Ice AgeJud Partin
April 10Charles Jackson, Research Scientist, UTIGNon-Convective Precipitation and the Law of Unintended ConsequencesYuko Okumura
April 24Manasij Santra, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIGInsight on Major Components and Behavior of Marine Gas Hydrate Systems from Seismic-Scale Observations in Abyssal Gulf of MexicoSteve Phillips
May 1Cornelia Rasmussen, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIGColorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP): A continuous, globally exportable chronostratigraphy of non-marine Triassic environmental change from Western North AmericaChris Lowery

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